Gary Basaraba (born March 16, 1959) is a Canadian-American actor best known for playing American police officers. He appeared as Sergeant Richard Santoro on Steven Bochco's Brooklyn South and Officer Ray Heckler on the critically acclaimed but shortly lived Boomtown. He also played a role as an officer investigating the disappearance of Diane Lane’s French lover in the film Unfaithful.

According to the DVD commentary for the first season of the police drama Boomtown, he did most of his driving stunts in the series and he made sure he accurately portrayed police procedures.[citation needed]

Basaraba has also made three appearances in the Law & Order franchise, as a bartender in the original series episode titled "Point of View", as a corrections officer in the Law & Order episode "The Brotherhood" in 2004, and in the SVU episode entitled "Parasites", as the husband of a woman who has gone missing.

In 2010, he played the role of Jimmy Burke in After Hours, the tenth episode of the first season of the CBS police procedural drama Blue Bloods.

Basaraba also played the role of Herb Rennet in the television series Mad Men.[3]

Basaraba was the voice of Hefty Smurf in the live-action/CG family film The Smurfs.[4] In 2016, he played the role of Don in The Accountant.

^"Recipe for Murder (2001): New York chief medical examiner Murray Maguire (Gary Basaraba) refuses to believe that his goddaughter's death was an accident, and investigates the case". Television Guide. 53: 94. 2005.